After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer toeffect the necessary changes.

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Xavier Roche discovered that libgd's function for reading GIF imagedata did not sufficiently verify its validity. Specially crafted GIFimages could cause an infinite loop which used up all available CPUresources. Since libgd is often used in PHP and Perl web applications,this could lead to a remote Denial of Service vulnerability.